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As a human progresses in life, it is almost evident to that person to encounter a situation where they must sacrifice one’s happiness in order to secure another’s. This phenomena happens to occur in A Trip to Grandma’s and What of this Goldfish Would You Wish? both stories we have read in the past. It also happens to coincide with the experiences we’ve had in the past. With these stories it is shown both who a person is through their relationship with others and the sacrifices they've made. On…

The Separation between the Fantastic and the Real in the Stories of Julio Cortázar Throughout the following research paper, we will develop the literary analysis of the stories "The night face up” “After lunch” “The Axolotl” and “Cefalea” by Julio Cortazar. I chose this author because we can enjoy his literature in which reality is transformed into fantasy, which catches us and forces us to interpret it. The author chosen belongs to the "boom" of Latin American literature. That is why his…

regret afterwards. For example, People gamble and lose all of their money, make bets on things that they are not a hundred percent sure of. We can see such examples from people’s life experience and from many movies and various literatures. In the short story “The Bet”, Anton Chekhov wrote about two gentleman who make bet on whether life imprisonment or execution is more moral than the other. The lawyer, who went to prison tried to prove that going to prison is better than execution, later…

there is an electric fence designed to keep the citizens inside their district, which is an example of how technology is used to control the citizens. Peacekeepers, Panem’s version of police, are also given weapons so they can control the public. In short, technology is only given to the citizens when it is going to be used to control them. The technology in the districts is also a sharp contrast to the technology in the Capitol, which is filled with television screens, electric lights, and…

Githa Hariharan’s works are known for their feminist and social concerns. Along with the other women writers she believes in creating women who suffer on one hand and try to break the traditional setup in order to lead a free life on the other hand. Though she talks about various subjects in her works the major theme of most of her novels is rewriting of myths and stories. The Introductory chapter of the present study had discussed the role of women in Indian society and the impact of…

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a short story horror fiction writer, born in 1890 and died in 1937 (Halpern and Labossiere 512). His unique style of writing, “...follows a rather nontraditional approach to horror, fitting more appropriately into the sub-genre weird fiction” (Hull 10). Lovecraft’s stories feature many strange creatures from the unknown, such as Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable, and Yog Sothoth (Kutrieh 44). These monsters, and the style of horror they were presented in, were a…

ceased off, the writers purposeful conclusion of irony through short lived liberation. “Free , Free, free mind” (SH) Showing how Louise accepts the joy of freedom that overtakes her with the absence of her husband in order to feel genuine happiness. The parallel between Louise and The Yellow Wallpaper shows how one is trapped and progressively worsens to a breaking point, while the other rises to hopeful ambitions and immediately cut…

enlighten and advise the people as observed in the numerous events in the novel. Other Americanism in Presley’s character. For American, time is money (Eby 40). Presley is seen to be valuing the time in each instance, and every time he cut and keep the conversation short with each person such as talk with Harren about shipping rates, Dyke about job lost matter, Annixter about the threat, Vanamee about tragic story he has, doctor, audience and Shelgrim about sound argument. Also, he always…

Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is well discussed in the fourth chapter. Anthony Burgess, the British novelist is considered to be one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Many critics have rated his novel A Clockwork Orange as one of Burgess' most brilliant achievements. The ability of an individual to make moral choices is the major theme of A Clockwork Orange. The society presented by Burgess deals with experiments and behaviour modification techniques on…

seems to be easy to be able to deal and more on from a passing of a loved one; however, allowing yourself to never forget about it comes with consequences. The novels The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Gathering by Anne Enright, and the short story “Was It a Dream” by Marjorie Laurie are all connected by a similar theme of relevance of their relationship, the guilt of their loss, and the ending result of hoe they overcome it. As a development, the works all prove how moving on from…